Aniket Alam
@aniketalam.bsky.social
Historian dabbling in Anthropology & Pol Sc.
Worked earlier as a journalist, editor, in social sector.
Areas of interest/ competence: Mountain Societies, State, Family, Colonialism, Marxism.
More here: https://hsrc.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/aniket.html
Worked earlier as a journalist, editor, in social sector.
Areas of interest/ competence: Mountain Societies, State, Family, Colonialism, Marxism.
More here: https://hsrc.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/aniket.html
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Aniket Alam
@aniketalam.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Some photos (mostly touristy) from a recent visit to the Dharamsala area of Himachal Pradesh to record interviews with Buddhist nuns (part of our effort to build an archive of "Oral Histories of Himalayan Transformation")
I hope to post more stuff on the quoted account in the days to come.
Highland Histories is an attempt to build a group / network / cohort of people studying mountain societies. It's just started and hopefully our website / archive will be up before the year is out....
Do follow if interested
Highland Histories is an attempt to build a group / network / cohort of people studying mountain societies. It's just started and hopefully our website / archive will be up before the year is out....
Do follow if interested
Really nice interview with Gauhar Raza on science and it's struggles with religious fundamentalisms in a country like India
youtu.be/OPLFh1A-HCE?...
youtu.be/OPLFh1A-HCE?...
Are We 🇮🇳 Indians Scientific? | Nope ft. Gauhar Raza | Episode 001
YouTube video by Kunal Kamra
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Really nice interview with Gauhar Raza on science and it's struggles with religious fundamentalisms in a country like India
youtu.be/OPLFh1A-HCE?...
youtu.be/OPLFh1A-HCE?...
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It’s a bit sad that so many more Americans will have debates about the propriety of a group chat about bombing Yemen than about, well, bombing Yemen
March 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It’s a bit sad that so many more Americans will have debates about the propriety of a group chat about bombing Yemen than about, well, bombing Yemen
The level of incompetence and hubris is something else.
But what really got me were the emojis: these guys are basically playing video games.
But what really got me were the emojis: these guys are basically playing video games.
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
theatln.tc
March 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The level of incompetence and hubris is something else.
But what really got me were the emojis: these guys are basically playing video games.
But what really got me were the emojis: these guys are basically playing video games.
As expected Grok AI has no guardrails, like its owner.
What you will read here is, frankly, quite frightening; straight out of Black Mirror!
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
What you will read here is, frankly, quite frightening; straight out of Black Mirror!
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The AI that apparently wants Elon Musk to die
X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.
www.vox.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
As expected Grok AI has no guardrails, like its owner.
What you will read here is, frankly, quite frightening; straight out of Black Mirror!
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
What you will read here is, frankly, quite frightening; straight out of Black Mirror!
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For more—and to sign— go to
saynotoethniccleansing.org
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Besides being callous and idiotic, this is perhaps the most historically illiterate argument I’ve ever seen. Has this man never encountered a single book, or just like… an older person?
There are few folks in the DC South Asia policy space whose takes i loathe as much as Dhume, especially when he decides to step into anything MENA or Israel/Palestine related
February 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Besides being callous and idiotic, this is perhaps the most historically illiterate argument I’ve ever seen. Has this man never encountered a single book, or just like… an older person?
Who'd have thunk!!???
Francis Fukuyama berating American Imperialism
www.persuasion.community/p/the-new-am...
Francis Fukuyama berating American Imperialism
www.persuasion.community/p/the-new-am...
The New American Imperialism
Trump’s expansionist mindset should shock even his America First allies.
www.persuasion.community
February 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Who'd have thunk!!???
Francis Fukuyama berating American Imperialism
www.persuasion.community/p/the-new-am...
Francis Fukuyama berating American Imperialism
www.persuasion.community/p/the-new-am...
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This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature
An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From the river to the sea!!!
January 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
From the river to the sea!!!
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This Palestinian girl comforted her little brother, despite being injured herself, after a recent Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, central Gaza.
December 23, 2024 at 1:40 PM
This Palestinian girl comforted her little brother, despite being injured herself, after a recent Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, central Gaza.
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I don't know why the SF Chronicle avoids mentioning specifics at all.
But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists.
She was fired for supporting the UN.
But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists.
She was fired for supporting the UN.
December 20, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I don't know why the SF Chronicle avoids mentioning specifics at all.
But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists.
She was fired for supporting the UN.
But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists.
She was fired for supporting the UN.
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It is more than an accusation. Israel's top officials boasted that this is precisely what they were doing. They confessed joyously. Period.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply
Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean water
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM
It is more than an accusation. Israel's top officials boasted that this is precisely what they were doing. They confessed joyously. Period.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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i think countries that are going to arrest netanyahu should stop announcing it and instead they should invite him to speak or something and when he arrives put a fucking bag over his head
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 PM
i think countries that are going to arrest netanyahu should stop announcing it and instead they should invite him to speak or something and when he arrives put a fucking bag over his head
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'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.
November 13, 2024 at 8:53 AM
'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.
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The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.
November 14, 2024 at 10:16 AM
The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.
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Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.
November 16, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.
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Actually a problem I have with Bluesky
How much US news is too much US news? Right now, in my current mood, any at all.
December 11, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Actually a problem I have with Bluesky